These terms of use ("Terms of Use") govern your use of this website (the "Website") and your use of the Meteor system to submit, review and peer-review documents (“Meteor”). It is important that you read these Terms of Use and the privacy policy that governs the Website and Meteor (the "Privacy Policy") before you use the Website or Meteor and supply any personal data through it.

By accessing or using the Website, you expressly agree to the Terms of Use without any further declaration being required. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, please do not use the website.

Use of the Website and Meteor

Do not provide anyone else with the log-in information associated with any registration related to this Website and Meteor. You should never provide personal or sensitive information about yourself or any other person except as specifically requested by us.

Participating in the Website and Meteor

At all times while visiting the Website and Meteor and participating in, accessing and using any available features, you must conduct yourself in a polite, courteous and respectful manner, and you must comply with all applicable laws.

For example, you may not, while using Meteor and the Website:

• Request, attempt to obtain or store, personal information, passwords or other information of other users.
• Access or use another person's registration.
• Alter, modify, frame or "mirror" any content not supplied by you.
• Create a deep-link to the Website or any linked site by bypassing the applicable home page.
• Inhibit, disrupt or otherwise prevent anyone from using or accessing the Website or any linked site or interrupt any user's experience on the Website or any linked site, including, without limitation, acting in any manner that disrupts users' real-time exchanges or hacking or defacing any portion of the Website, Meteor or any linked site.
• Interfere with or disrupt the Website, Meteor or any linked site or servers or network connections to any of them.
• Disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Website or any linked site.
• Modify, adapt, sublicense, translate, sell, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the Website, Meteor or any linked site.
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Website, Meteor or any linked site or any portion of them, any available feature, any other systems or networks connected to the Website, any linked site or any server related to them.
• Use Meteor and the Website intentionally or unintentionally to violate any applicable local, state, national or international law or regulation.

Content

All content accessible on the Website, including text, user interfaces, visual interfaces applications, programs, computer code, pictures, icons, trademarks, logos and other information provided by Springer (collectively, the "content"), including but not limited to the design, layout, “look insight” and arrangement of such content, is owned by Springer or its licensors and is protected by copyright, trademark and other intellectual property and unfair competition laws.

You may solely for private, educational, personal, scientific, or research purposes access, browse, view, display, search, download and print the content.

You may not

• remove, obscure or alter any copyright or other notices, trademarks, logos, service marks or any other proprietary rights appearing in or on the content,
• update, change, revise, adapt, modify, translate, transform or create any derivative work of the content,
• re-distribute, reproduce, or transmit the content by any means including electronic (e. g., via e-mail) nor post it on your personal or public Websites or on public networks,
• systematically download any content, use routines designed to continuously and automatically search and index the content (full text and meta data), such as web-crawling or spider programs or engage in any activity likely to burden the Website, directly or indirectly use or assist any third party to use the content for any commercial or monetary purposes including without limitation any sale, resale, loan, transfer or upload of the content to a commercial entity’s internet Website,
• use the Website to publish, distribute or advertise any promotional material or other forms of solicitation to other users or any other services facilitation of any activities that are prohibited by law.

The Website or Meteor may not be used to publish or display any sort of information that is illegal, that violates the rights and privacy of any person, that is abusive, pornographic, profane, or vulgar. Springer has the right to block access to Website or Meteor for anyone abusing it in any way.

Advertising and promotion material may not be posted on the Website or Meteor without the prior approval of Springer. Any unauthorized use by you of any content may subject you to civil or criminal penalties. The ownership of each item of content is retained at all times by its respective owner.

Information You Provide and Submissions

Our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms of Use, governs the collection and use of information gathered on or through the Website and Meteor, including, without limitation, the personal information provided by users.

Please do not send us any ideas, materials, suggestions or other information you would like to keep confidential or for which you would like or expect acknowledgement or compensation.

We do not guarantee your submissions will not be lost or damaged or that you will be able to retrieve your submissions or recover any other data transmitted to us through the Website, Meteor or any site linked to it. We reserve the right, but do not have the responsibility, to monitor and remove any submission, at any time and without notice, in our sole discretion.

System Requirements and Systems Availability

The availability of the Websites and Meteor at all times is not guaranteed. In particular, the Websites may be temporarily unavailable for maintenance or technical reasons without this giving rise to any claims against Springer. To the extent permitted by applicable law, Springer provides the content “as is” and makes no other representation or warranty. Springer expressly disclaims any liability for any claim arising from or out of the content, including but not limited to any errors, inaccuracies, omissions, or defects contained therein, and any implied or express warranty as to merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Links

Links leading out of the Website or Meteor are provided for information only. Springer does not endorse the products, the information, and the services of the Website or Meteor linking out of Springer websites. Access to linked sites is at your own risk. Linked sites may not be available at all times and may contain content that is untrue, offensive, inaccurate, incomplete, or outdated.

Reporting Violations of These Terms of Use

If you become aware of activities or content that violates these Terms of Use, please immediately notify us. Although we do not guarantee any action based on that information, we will make reasonable efforts to respond in a fair and timely manner to reported violations.

Disclaimer

THE WEBSITE AND METEOR, ITS CONTENT AND THE CONTENT OF ANY LINKED SITES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE." WE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL EXPRESS AND IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.

Limitation of Liability

TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL SPRINGER OR ITS SUPPLIERS OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES TO PERSONS, ANIMALS OR PROPERTY (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, OR SIMILAR DAMAGES, PERSONAL INJURY (INCLUDING DEATH), LOSS OF PROFITS, CORRUPTION OR LOSS OF DATA, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION OR ANY OTHER COMMERCIAL DAMAGES OR LOSSES) ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE WEBSITE OR METEOR OR ITS CONTENT, PRODUCTS OR SERVCES. SPRINGER CANNOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY MATERIAL OR INFORMATION LOST DUE TO TECHNICAL PROBLEMS OF FAILURE OF THE SYSTEM.

Changes to the Terms of Use

We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to revise, change or modify these Terms of Use at any time by posting the revision on the Website and by indicating the date of the most recent revision. Your continued use of the Website and Meteor following any such revision will signify your acceptance of that revision.

Termination

We may, in our sole discretion, at any time and without prior notice, terminate your use of the Website or Meteor or terminate your rights under these Terms of Use for any or no reason. In our sole discretion, and at any time, we may also discontinue providing the Website, Meteor or any one or part of it, with or without notice.

Miscellaneous

All disputes or matters relating to your use of the Website and Meteor shall be governed, interpreted and determined in accordance with the laws of Germany without regard to its choice of law principles and shall be decided exclusively by the courts of Berlin (Germany), as far as legally permissible. Except as otherwise prohibited by law, any claim or dispute must be brought within one (1) year from the date the cause of action shall arise.

Contact Us

For all issues or questions please use the following contact information: meteor.info@springer.com